Australia’s online safety laws have fallen well behind leading global efforts and key parts of the legislation are no longer fit for purpose, an expedited review has found, heaping...
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An education “crisis” means Victoria won’t have enough high skilled workers to deliver a knowledge-based economy, STEM groups are warning as the Allan government weighs changes to the state...
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A radioisotope heater designed to help payloads survive the lunar night and a GPS-free navigation system for rockets are among five projects to share in $3.6 million in federal...
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South Australia’s new assistant minister for artificial intelligence will press his government for more support to capitalise on the state’s renowned research base by growing and attracting more companies....
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Without significant investment in artificial intelligence, Australia risks lower productivity, economic stagnation and the loss of AI research skills, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has warned in its...
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Tech giants and the Big Four consulting firms donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Australia’s major political parties last year, new data from the electoral commission shows. Annual...
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The federal government has inked a fresh cloud sourcing arrangement with Amazon Web Services just weeks before all seven of its technology mega-deals are set to be reviewed. The...
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A squeeze on external consultants and individual contractors by the Minns government has saved the state nearly half a billion dollars, NSW Finance minister Courtney Houssos announced over the...
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Gilmour Space Technologies chief executive Adam Gilmour estimates that the company has taken “a $20 million hit to our capital” during its long wait for regulatory approval for the...
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It has been a week in which artificial intelligence hit the business and political mainstream, and where Australian leaders were well and truly exposed, caught with their pants down....
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A Senate committee has given the green light to the federal government’s plan to direct billions of dollars in tax credits towards the production of green hydrogen and critical...
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The arrival of a Chinese challenger shows Australia isn’t out of the AI arms race and could even carve out a dominant position in powering the technology, according to...
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Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones will not recontest the next federal election, leaving the frontbench amid the federal government’s renewed push to get social media giants to pay for news....
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Kite Magnetics, a Monash University spinout producing ultra-energy-efficient electric generators and engines, will set up a new advanced manufacturing facility in Melbourne’s southeast. The state-of-the-art facility, announced on Friday,...